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tonight on "nightline," preachers daughters, pray by day and party by night. three teenagers reared in houses of god wandering to the wild side. a new reality show unlike any you've seen. lonely at the top. she's a billionaire and one of the most powerful executives in the world. why she says that women need to lean in and wake up. jumbo soda ban? a sweet day for soda loving new yorkers. >> i have to defend my children and you and everybody else. >> as mayor bloomberg fights back we ask is he going too far? >> as mayor bloomberg fights [ woman ] don't forgetg too far? the yard work! okay.
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from new york city, this is "nightline" with cynthia mcfadden. >> thanks for joining us. i think we can all agree being a teenager is tough. imagine being a teen with a parent who is a preacher. we will introduce you tonight to a woman who says that being bad is her reaction to the good book. she is one of the stars of the new reality show, "preachers' daughters," poised to take the air waves by storm. >> reporter: if you think following the humdrum life of church going families wouldn't hit the mark for a reality show your faith in television is about to be tested. >> look at the decision you just made as a christian young lady. >> reporter: "preachers'
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daughters" the real stories of three young women and their pastor parents struggles to rein them in. >> you have to focus on school. >> i have been focusing on school. >> are we spent a day in california with one of them. olivia perry. >> when i say my dad's a pastor they're like you are the good girl or don't do anything wrong. >> reporter: anxious to prove her classmates wrong and fit in, olivia lived a life filled with sin. >> hanging out with the wrong people, drinking, doing drugs and going to parties and being with boys and doing things with boys. i loved the reaction i would get when i said my dad's a pastor and they are like you're a pastor's kid at a party. >> reporter: in an unchurch like moment her straying from her faith and parents came with a most unexpected consequence.
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18-year-old olivia is now a single mother. living in her parents' house with her 11-month-old daughter eden. she says her life is finally back on track thanks to one unforgettable weekend fuelled by drugs and alcohol. >> what changed then? what was the moment? >> i got my license suspended after getting in a car accident and the next day i found out i was pregnant. >> the next day? >> yeah. it was a weekend of whoa. >> reporter: her parents see baby eden as a blessing. but getting here wasn't easy. >> i felt sad and like i said disappointed with olivia's choices. but i would say my faith helped me get through that. >> did you question yourself and your roles as parents? did you feel at all like you failed? >> i don't think any parent could watch their kids go through difficulty and not go
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did i contribute to this? definitely. >> reporter: the show is filled with sort of thing including one preacher daughter's fear that his daughter will become a important star. >> reporter: and the preacher mom embarrassing her daughter with a sex sermon. >> i'm not talking about penetration sex. i'm not just talking about that. i'm talking about everything. and the same mom grills a prospective boy with a written contract and interview. >> have you kissed her yet? >> i have kissed her. >> you kissed? >> reporter: olivia and her family face the uncomfortable moment she has to tell her parents she is not sure who the baby's father is. >> you know how eden is shawn's? there's also a possibility that she could be this guy name
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jay's. >> reporter: the critics are pouncing already. a group called one million moms is calling for a boycott of the show before it airs a single episode saying it is not only offensive to pastors, their daughters and families across the country but to all christians to publicize a family's struggle for a buck and belittle the family in the process is despicable. the perries think that it will help others with their challenges. >> you will be fairly or unfairly judged. >> i think judgment from afar is unfortunate in our culture. we have a culture where cowardly people become brave behind a laptop commuter. >> reporter: olivia says having eden is the best thing that could have happened and she is no longer embarrassed to be a
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preacher's daughter. >> i'm proud of it now. i love i'm a preacher's daughter now. i don't want to prove it wrong or rebel against that label. i'm okay with it. >> reporter: i'm neal karlinsky in oceano, california. next up, she's one of the most influential people in the world and one of the richest. why is her advice to women causing such a stir? >> abc news "nightline" brought to you by red lobster. there's nothing like our grilled lobster and lobster tacos. the bar harbor bake is really worth trying. [ male announcer ] get more during red lobster's lobsterfest. with the year's largest selection of mouth-watering lobster entrees. like our delicious lobster lover's dream, featuring two kinds of lobster tails. or our savory, new grilled maine lobster and lobster tacos. my favorite entree is the lobster lover's dream. what's yours? come celebrate lobsterfest and sea food differently.
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they say you can't have it all. but sheryl sandberg comes awfully close. at 43, sandberg who is a director at disney, abc's parent company is the highly respected chief operating office of facebook putting her net worth in the billions. she is happily married with two young children and wants even more. specifically, women to join her in the professional stratosphere. she called it leaning in. gunning for the corner office, not the cubicle. here's elizabeth vargas. >> reporter: sheryl sandberg is one of the most powerful women in the world. at 43 she is the chief operating officer of facebook and a billionaire and you could say she is lonely at the top. >> women have 14% of the top jobs in corporate america for ten years. ten years of no progress.
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>> are her book "lean in" has ignited a firestorm as a men fes stow for the sex in the city generation looking at the uncomfortable question why are there so few women at the top? >> we are nowhere close to having a share of the leadership roles anywhere in the world. a national retailer printed up onesies, smart like daddy and pretty like mommy. >> really? >> that was two years ago. >> reporter: "lean in's" message, when it comes to getting ahead, women can be their own worst enemies. >> you talk about an ambition gap. >> there are women who are just as ambitious but if you ask boys and girls starting in junior high do you want to lead? more males than females say yes. >> don't you think ambitious
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when assigned to a man is attractive. >> the word ambitious for a woman is negative. >> reporter: sandberg says it can be traced to what you could call the sally field syndrome that women need to be liked. >> the fact is in the office we see that all the time. men are driven, aggressive, decisive. women are difficult, bitchy. >> as a men is more successful he is better liked and a women is less liked. >> and mark zuckerberg told you you have to stop worry about everyone liking you. >> he said you care too much about pleasing everyone. you are never going to please everyone. if you say anything that matters you are certainly not going to please everyone. >> you wrote that you were afraid that someone was going to find out i'm not smart enough.
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>> reporter: we know that men feel more confident than women. >> what are we doing to our girls that they are not getting the confidence? >> the stereo types are self fulfilling. >> reporter: she tell astro from her own childhood. >> at my wedding my brother and sister got on stage and they said we are sheryl's younger brother and sister david and michelle. but we are actually her first employees. employee number one and employee number two. because sheryl never really played as a child. she more organized other children's play. >> you will hear the word bossy never used for a boy but for girls. and as being called bossy for a girl, it's not a compliment. >> she seems like an unlikely poster child for struggle raised by a doctor and stay at home mom in miami she went to harvard.
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>> when she was in the sixth grade she entered an oratory contest and she was so small because she was young that they had to put a box for her to stand on so they could see her over the podium. and she went on to win second place. the person who won was in high school. >> reporter: she became an early protege of larry summers becoming his chief of staff at the age of 27. but instead of staying in washington she took a risk on what was then a small search engine, a little thing called google. >> you are going to find something you love doing -- >> reporter: it's the web that made her an accidental icon when a pair of speeches starting in 2010 went viral. >> no one gets to the corner office by sitting on the side not at the table. >> reporter: your speech had 2
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million youtube views. >> i never talked about a women ever. people might notice you're a woman. >> reporter: it's the image of a female boss as my ran da priestly in "the devil wears prada," sandberg goes out of her way to be the opposite, a bundle of energy who never stops moving. >> enjoy these. >> reporter: and greets people with hugs, not handshakes. in addition to the book she is launching what she is calling lean in circles. groups of women who meet to talk about challenges like negotiating your own salaries. >> you didn't do a great job with mark zuckerberg. >> exactly. i was dying to get the job. i thought the first offer was fair and about to take it. and my brother-in-law said to me, what are you kidding? no one takes the first offer. go negotiate. and i said if i negotiate maybe
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he won't like me and i won't get the job and it won't work out. he said why would you make less than any man would take. and that was motivating. >> reporter: the book has planted sandberg in the white hot center in the never ending debate of women in the work force and mommy wars with criticism coming from other women. >> everyone agrees that sheryl sandberg is wickedly smart but she has been lucky and has had powerful mentors along the way. >> fair enough. i have been really lucky. and with that comes the opportunity and the responsibility to help other women. >> in your book you say -- you don't hear a lot of people saying a man is lucky. >> when a man is successful and asked why he attributes it to his own skills. a women will attribute that success to luck and help from others. >> you are telling women to act more like a man?
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>> not telling women to act more like a man but believe in yourself. >> others say that she is too privileged to preach. >> you are reach and can afford help that the vast majority of people can't afford. it's one thing to saline in and work harder when you are sitting in your seat than in a lot of other seats. >> i have resources that other people don't have. and that gives me the responsibility to speak out for women. this is about the fact that women make 77 cents to the dollar for men. >> reporter: but sandberg says we have to ask men to do more at home and perhaps easier said than done. >> i'm in a marriage and i love my husband to pony up 50% of the housework and child carry won't happen. >> i beat myself up for all the things i don't do. my husband spends the same amount with his kids as/do. he thinks we are heroes.
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we get home and make dinner and drive them to school. we experience things so differently. >> reporter: does sandberg plan to lean in further? there is speculation she could run for office and there is another women she wants to see put her hat if the ring. >> i hope hillary clinton runs for president. >> and wins? >> and wins. one of the reasons i wrote "lean in" is my daughter, four years old we have a tape of all the presidents and she says mommy, why are they all boys? if hillary clinton becomes president my daughter won't ask me that question any more. that's so important. >> a future generation where no one may notice the president is wearing a skirt. i'm elizabeth vargas for "nightline" in new york. >> "lean in" is in bookstores now. next in vatican city, history in the making as the cardinals begin a mysterious and
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well, pope benedict xvi surprised the world when he became the first pope in nearly 600 years to step down. tomorrow, 116 cardinals begin the sanctified and secret process of electing the next pope. terry moran has more live from the vatican. >> reporter: amid a lot of pageantry and prayer just behind me there it begins, the cardinals will march in procession into the sistine chapel and vote to pick the next pope and the eyes of 1.2 billion catholics around the world will turn here to rome, waiting looking for the white smoke to billow out of the chimney back there, the white smoke that signals a new pope has been chosen. tonight the cool spring air in rome is thick with suspense and tinged with a bit of intrigue
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and for so many millions charged with hope. just imagine this is the long walk the 115 cardinal electors will take tuesday afternoon down the corridors of the vatican and into the sistine chapel. the books in latin are all in place. the twin stoves await. one to burn the ballots and one to burn chemicals to make sure the smoke is the right color. black for inconclusive and white for a new pope. and tonight a final preparation, the vatican staff, religious officials and two medical doctors, cooks, housekeepers, florists, 90 people all told take a solemn oath of absolute and perpetual skressy. many of the cardinals have been out and about in rome including
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timothy dolan of new york who said mass at the church and may have a shot of being the first american pope. whoever is chosen, his white papal garments await in the room of tears where the man who is elected to lead the church to come first to change, to prayer, and perhaps, tradition says, to weep. who will it be? there is no favorite or front runner and rome is feverish with speculation. it is men who make the choice and they will take their first vote tuesday afternoon. the prayers of millions are already with them. and the whole world waits. cynthia? >> our thanks to you, terry moran. it's now time for tonight's closing arguments.
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arbitrary and capricious is what a judge called michael bloomberg's ban on oversized soft drinks. the mayor thinks it's in the best interest of new yorker's health. is the soda ban a shrewd health policy? thanks for joining us. good night, america.

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